August 2024’s Most Wanted Malware: RansomHub Reigns Supreme While Meow Ransomware Surges
September 12, 2024
Check Point has published its Global Threat Index for August 2024. The index revealed that ransomware remains a dominant force, with RansomHub sustaining its position as the top ransomware group. This Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation has…
Rwanda Kicks Off Construction of its Smart City Project, Kigali Innovation City
September 12, 2024
The Government of Rwanda, Africa50, and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), have officially broken ground on the construction of the 61-hectare smart city development dubbed Kigali Innovation City. This is happening…
Liquid Expands High-Speed Fibre Connectivity Across Kenya-Uganda Corridor
September 11, 2024
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has announced the upgrade of its 1,300km fibre route connecting Mombasa to Busia on the Ugandan border, bringing additional multi-terabit capacity and additional resilience to the region. See: Liquid Intelligent Technologies Launches…
Safaricom Awarded a Payment Facilitator Certificate by Visa
September 11, 2024
Visa has awarded Safaricom a payment facilitator certificate, marking a significant milestone in its ongoing partnership with the Telco. This partnership will enhance Safaricom’s merchant ecosystem by diversifying payment acceptance modes through the introduction of…
Banking in the Eyes of the Next Generation Consumer
September 11, 2024
By Moses Muthui, Consumer Banking Director, Absa Bank Kenya Back in the early 2000s, paying my university fees meant dressing up and making a trip to the bank to deposit the money in person, and…
Understanding MediaTek Smartphone Processors
September 11, 2024
If you have used an Android smartphone over the last 10 years, you may have used one powered by a MediaTek processor. It is one of the handful smartphone processors we see on most smartphones….
Vertiv Introduces Cloud-Based and Vendor-Neutral Fleet Management and Monitoring Solution for Edge and Distributed Physical Infrastructure Environments in EMEA
September 10, 2024
As AI workloads pivot to the network edge, the need for enhanced visibility at these remote data centre sites has become increasingly apparent. Recognising this, Vertiv has introduced Vertiv Environet Connect, a cloud-connected and web-based fleet…
The Infinix Xpad Tablet is Now Available in kenya for Ksh 24,000
September 10, 2024
Infinix has finally launched its Xpad tablet into the Kenyan market. The tablet is available locally starting from Ksh 24,000 and you can get it through Xpark. This is the first tablet from the company…
FlapKap Closes a $34 Million Pre-Series A Funding Round
September 9, 2024
FlapKap has announced the close of a $34 million new debt and equity funding. FlapKap is an Abu Dhabi-based fintech that provides revenue-based and embedded financing solutions in the MENA region. FlapKap was launched to…